CVE-2020-3223

Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
4.5 Medium
Published
Jun 3, 2020
Updated
Nov 15, 2024
Reserved
Dec 12, 2019

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Description

A vulnerability in the web-based user interface (web UI) of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges to read arbitrary files on the underlying filesystem of the device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient file scope limiting. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specific file reference on the filesystem and then accessing it through the web UI. An exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files from the underlying operating system's filesystem.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.04.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco IOS XE Software 16.9.4Cisco
  • n/aAffected

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